Structure of phase change materials for data storage

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 96, Issue 5, 2006, Pages

  Sun, Zhimei ^a   Zhou, Jian ^b   Ahuja, Rajeev ^a,b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS ALLOYS; CRYSTAL ATOMIC STRUCTURE; CRYSTAL SYMMETRY; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT;

CHALCOGENIDE ALLOYS; CUBIC SYMMETRY; ELECTRICAL MEMORY DEVICES; METASTABLE CUBIC STATES;

PHASE TRANSITIONS;

EID: 33244486323     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.055507     Document Type: Article

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